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Choosing the Right Crowdfunding Platform in 2025: A Complete Analysis (for filmmakers and artists)

Kickstarter v IndieGoGo v Seed&Spark v GoFundMe… which is right for you?

Feb 27

Choosing the Right Crowdfunding Platform in 2025: A Complete Analysis (for filmmakers and artists)

Feb 27

Indie Film Budgeting: Things That Cost More Than You Think

Don’t get blindsided when making your budget!

Mar 4

Indie Film Budgeting: Things That Cost More Than You Think

Mar 4

How To Schedule Your Indie Film Shoot

Making a schedule that won’t break your budget… or your brain

Feb 20

How To Schedule Your Indie Film Shoot

Feb 20

My 3 Biggest Romance Writing Tips

The romance is the A plot, use all your senses, and is the miscommunication “trope” really that bad?

Aug 15, 2024

My 3 Biggest Romance Writing Tips

Aug 15, 2024

How To Personalize Crowdfunding Rewards When You Have No Time

As ever: work smarter, not harder

Jun 10, 2024

How To Personalize Crowdfunding Rewards When You Have No Time

Jun 10, 2024

How To Storyboard (and How To Pick Your Shots)

Using terrible drawings to better communicate with your team.

May 24, 2024

How To Storyboard (and How To Pick Your Shots)

May 24, 2024

What’s In Your Indie Film On-Set Survival Kit?

Everything to keep in your backpack when you’re filmmaking

May 21, 2024

What’s In Your Indie Film On-Set Survival Kit?

May 21, 2024

How To Plan (And Use) Content Themes To Market Your Indie Project

A tool to focus brainstorming and make marketing less overwhelming

May 10, 2024

How To Plan (And Use) Content Themes To Market Your Indie Project

May 10, 2024

The Pros and Cons of Mixing Crowdfunding and Fiscal Sponsorship

Fiscal sponsorship can be an incredibly powerful tool in your fundraising toolbox, or can also be a huge waste of time and hard-won funds…

May 6, 2024

The Pros and Cons of Mixing Crowdfunding and Fiscal Sponsorship

May 6, 2024

2 Surprisingly Valuable Crowdfunding Teammates (who aren’t also your crew)

Never crowdfund alone. Yes, even if you’re crowdfunding partially with the purpose of eventually building your crew; you can’t exactly ask…

Apr 30, 2024

2 Surprisingly Valuable Crowdfunding Teammates (who aren’t also your crew)

Apr 30, 2024

The Comprehensive Pre-Crowdfunding Itinerary

How to structure pre-production for your crowdfunding campaign

Apr 18, 2024

The Comprehensive Pre-Crowdfunding Itinerary

Apr 18, 2024

This is not your last project

This is a blog for me, to remind me when I’ve lost my way that creativity and passion are not finite resources.

Mar 18, 2024

This is not your last project

Mar 18, 2024

How to Give Feedback

As an adjunct professor and consultant, as well as a writer with two writing degrees and a multitude of writing groups over the years, I…

Mar 12, 2024

How to Give Feedback

Mar 12, 2024

Do you need to make a proof of concept?

Defined for the purpose of this post as a short piece of test material (a sizzle reel, trailer, or scene/short) made to entice funders…

Feb 21, 2024

Do you need to make a proof of concept?

Feb 21, 2024

Scheduling Your Crowdfunding Outreach Plan

I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again: your crowdfunding success has far more to do with your outreach plan and direct…

Feb 15, 2024

Scheduling Your Crowdfunding Outreach Plan

Feb 15, 2024

The 3 Biggest Crowdfunding Misconceptions

Inevitably, when I’m doing a crowdfunding consultation, I get hit with this question: “what else don’t I know? What is your standard, high…

Feb 6, 2024

The 3 Biggest Crowdfunding Misconceptions

Feb 6, 2024

4 Crowdfunding Scams To Look Out For

No matter which platform you use or how you set up your campaign, there will always be scammers and bad actors on the internet (and in real…

Feb 2, 2024

4 Crowdfunding Scams To Look Out For

Feb 2, 2024

Flexible Funding is Not Your Friend

Debunking the biggest lie in creative crowdfunding

Jan 24, 2024

Flexible Funding is Not Your Friend

Jan 24, 2024

Political romance novels

Subscribe to my romance newsletter, Forced Proximity, that will deliver you 3 new romance recommendations every Friday afternoon!

Aug 8, 2023

Political romance novels

Aug 8, 2023

Fake Dating 2: Happy Valentines Day!

My capacity to consume fake dating love stories is limitless, here’s a new batch!

Feb 14, 2023

Fake Dating 2: Happy Valentines Day!

Feb 14, 2023

Bri Castellini

Bri Castellini

Freelance indie film and crowdfunding consultant. Writer of mystery TV and romance novels. Human bulldozer. www.BriCastellini.com

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